Tag: 2011 Series

On March 1, 2011, hackers obtained the Mt. Gox wallet.dat file from the server.

This is believed to be the withdrawal transaction hash: e67a0550848b7932d7796aeea16ab0e48a5cfe81c4e8cca2c5b03e0416850114

resulting in 79,956.55 BTC stolen.

 As of 19 July 2018, the stolen 80,000 bitcoin has never been moved.

BTC Price during transaction: $1.1363

Art details: Original digital hand painted motion art portrait (NOT Computer Generated). The ticker tape displays the historical daily price indexes recorded on this day.

Dimensions: 720 x 1080, 19.4 MB, Duration: 15 seconds

Created with Corel Painter, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere

Artist: Denise Holt

On February 9, 2011, Bitcoin surpassed $1.00 value (a 1000% rise in 6 months)

The first Angel investors start to purchase bitcoin; Roger Ver made his inaugural $25K Bitcoin purchase.

Art details: Original digital hand painted motion art portrait (NOT Computer Generated). The ticker tape displays the historical daily price indexes recorded on this day.

Dimensions: 720 x 1080, 19.4 MB, Duration: 15 seconds

Created with Corel Painter, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere

Artist: Denise Holt

CWD is a historic NFT collection containing 150 unique tokens representing  important dates in bitcoin price history from 2009 –2022, to be released in mini-drops throughout 2022, of twelve new unique tokens for each successive year series. The initial sale of the tokens can be found on the Rarible Marketplace. All tokens are priced equally at 0.07 ETH.

2011 was a tough year for bitcoin. In its 3^rd year, Bitcoin was on the rise, but it was also plagued by theft, corruption & increasing mining costs. The Mt. Gox exchange played a major role in all of this.

The 2011 series of this collection contains twelve unique tokens highlighting these  events:

1. 2011 February 9th – BTC surpasses 1 Dollar
2. 2011 March 1st – Mt. Gox Wallet Theft 1
3. 2011 March 6th – Mt Gox Exchange Sold
4. 2011 May 22nd – Mt Gox Wallet Theft 2
5. 2011 June 9th – Gawker Expose on Silk Road
6. 2011 June 19th – Mt. Gox Hack plummets BTC to $0.01
7. 2011 July 18th – Mt. Gox Hack Shows Proof of Reserves
8. 2011 August 11th – Mt. Gox Purchases Bitomat
9. 2011 September 23rd – Bitcoin Update Introduces Wallet Encryption Passphrase After Mt Gox Wallet Theft 3
10. 2011 October 18th – Miner Capitulation – Bitcoin Plummets Costing More to Mine Than Worth
11. 2011 November 23rd – WIRED Publishes, The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin
12. 2011 December 31st – Bitcoin Ends Year With a Boost After Good Wife TV Show Airs

Art details: Original digital hand painted motion art portraits (NOT computer generated). The ticker tape displays the historical daily price indexes recorded on this day.

Dimensions: 720 x 1080, Duration: 15 seconds

Created with Corel Painter, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere

Artist: Denise Holt